Klappenburg Bridge

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The Klappenburgbrücke on the street Am Leineufer (Bundesstraße 6).

The Klappenburgbrücke is a road bridge over the Leine in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony . It connects the Hanover district of Stöcken with the Seelz district of Letter .

history

Supply lines run under the Klappenburg Bridge

Since 1752, a ferry on the edge of the village of Stöcken has connected the village with the lands on the other bank of the Leine. From there a dirt road led to the neighboring village of Letter to the south. A ferry near Stöcken is also shown on the map of the Kurhannoversche Landaufnahme from 1781. In the 1930s, the Stöcken-Letter ferry was no longer able to cope with the volume of traffic.

In May 1936, instead of the ferry, a road bridge built over the Leine for 75,000 Reichsmarks was opened. The bridge in the extension of the street Auf der Klappenburg was a simple wooden construction. The path from the bridge to Letter remained a dirt road patched with slag .

The connection between Stöcken and Letter was upgraded to a district road in 1966 and a state road in 1968 as the volume of traffic continued to increase . A steel framework construction intended as a temporary solution replaced the bridge on the Klappenburg in 1967. In 1984 the Klappenburg Bridge was rebuilt as a prestressed concrete bridge .

Gravestones under the bridge

A memorial stone that fell dry on the banks of the Leine under the Klappenburg bridge

In September 2018, the daily newspaper Neue Presse reported that during the low water level of the Leine due to the drought and heat in Europe in 2018, various gravestones were found on the river bank under the Klappenburg Bridge , some of which were usually below the water level. Where the gravestones come from - one of them for a mother who died in 1904 - and who put them under the bridge and when has not yet been clarified.

Web links

Commons : Klappenburgbrücke  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Gebhardt: Military affairs, transport and economy in the middle of the Electorate and Kingdom of Hanover 1692–1866 (= Studies on Lower Saxony State History , Vol. 1), Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8382-0184-9 , P. 134; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c d Karl-Heinz Pfeiffer (text), Hans Böttcher, Irene Leonhardt-Kurz, Erika Turek (collaborators): Waterways and Bridges in Seelze ( publication by the museum association for the city of Seelze ), Seelze: 2003, especially p. 30-35; also as a PDF document
  3. ↑ mrx: Meine Stadt / Umwelt / Die Leine releases gravestones ... , article on the site neuepresse.de from September 11, 2018, last accessed on September 12, 2018

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 44.7 "  N , 9 ° 38 ′ 52.3"  E